What's Your Morning Routine? What Actually Works vs What You Tried and Abandoned?

[MiniElliot]

Morning routine advice is everywhere. Miracle mornings. Five AM clubs. Cold showers journaling exercise meditation all before 7am. Some people swear by elaborate routines. Others stumble out of bed and straight to the kettle and function perfectly well. The honest conversation about morning routines includes both what works and what sounded good in a book but lasted three days in practice.

What does your actual morning look like? What habit has genuinely stuck and made a difference? What did you try that turned out to be nonsense? Does it change depending on whether you're working from home or going somewhere?